Editor’s Note: This piece was co-written by Alexandra and Elizabeth Deutsch. Liz is a student at Yale Law School, where she works on antidiscrimination law and gender justice. She holds an MSc in Gender from the London School of Economics.

In 2015, let’s take the lessons we’ve learned from the movement against campus sexual assault and apply them to help survivors off campus, too. This should be the year of civil options.

We can no longer avoid the reality that victims of gender-based violence need options other than criminal law. A recent strand of argument, found in the New York Times’s opinion page and the Huffington Post’s comment sections alike, is that colleges’ widespread mishandling of rape reports proves that ...

Editor’s Note: This piece was co-written by Alexandra and Elizabeth Deutsch. Liz is a student at Yale Law School, where she works on antidiscrimination law and gender justice. She holds an MSc in Gender from ...

Last week, the organization Sea Change released “Saying Abortion Aloud,” an extensive report examining how we can better support those who speak out for reproductive justice. We spoke with its creators to learn more about the research and what steps we can start taking today.

Canadian sex workers rights advocates spent years spent gaining traction through the courts with a case, known as the Bedford challenge. Three sex workers brought the case to try to overturn key sections of anti-sex work law in the Canadian Criminal Code. But yesterday a dangerous new bill gained royal assent (the Canadian equivalent of a president signing a bill) and will come into effect in 30 days. Bill C-36, unfortunately named the “Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act,” recriminalizes aspects of sex work through a combination of Swedish-style client criminalization and all new Canadian restrictions around advertising and street sex work.

For some background: The selling ...

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Morgan M. Page.

Canadian sex workers rights advocates spent years spent gaining traction through the courts with a case, known as the Bedford challenge. Three sex workers ...